Stella Creasy: “We do need a democratic moment of consent but I am comfortable about what that might be.”

This bill introduces a Diet Coke version of refugee status, the core protection visa, which will require refugees to be retested every 2.5 years, potentially for 20 years.

The answer has to be cooperation.

That is why I have proposed an amendment to the bill – new clause 120 – that would introduce an immediate £500,000 annual cap on donations, falling to £100,000 in the following calendar year.

As a democratic as well as socialist movement, Labour cannot stand by as our democracy disintegrates under these pressures.